By @jaimercant

Incredibly, there are naive people who believe that Trump has "liberated" Venezuela. Trump is only interested in petrodollars. That is why he is currently interested in oil-producing countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iran. In this regard, Trump presents a series of criminal paradoxes:

- He attacks Venezuela to liberate a people from a dictator, while supporting the current president of Syria, a professional executioner.

- He bombs Nigeria because he is concerned about persecuted Christians, but does not intervene in Sudan, where Christianity suffers much more atrocious and systematic persecution.

- He is promoting a "spring" in Iran to overthrow a despotic Islamic regime, while rubbing shoulders with Saudi Arabia, a major patron of jihadist terrorism.

- He wants to curb alleged Russian expansionism, while announcing that Greenland should belong to the US for reasons of geostrategic security.

- He seeks to prevent Taiwan from being dominated by China, while threatening, in a coercive and bullying manner, to take the Panama Canal by force.

- Until recently, he was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he has consistently favored the genocidal state of Israel in its efforts to turn Gaza into a wasteland.

In short, applauding Trump unthinkingly is equivalent to selling your soul to a greedy and unscrupulous devil.

However, I have recently learned that, in this delusional world, it is metaphysically impossible to convince a certain legion of dichotomous and Manichean sheep; it is not that they have renounced "critical thinking," but that they are simply incapable of it, given the voluntary "collapse" of their intelligence. For them, criticizing Trump is equivalent, for example, to being a communist or defending Maduro... Faced with such crude and obtuse ideas, I believe that the best response is disdain.

I can’t wrap my head around why this retard is so popular with Bitcoiners.

Hundreds of bailouts, 17 years later. Bitcoin keeps running. As intended.

Happy birthday, Bitcoin 🧡

I haven't eaten a single gram of sugar this whole year.

1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne.

Within months, he issues the Forest Laws.

Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death.

Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning.

Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point.

These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations.

The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow.

The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal.

The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order.

A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel.

This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class.

The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation.

The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3".

Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat.

The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.

i expect bitcoin to hit new all time highs in gold, silver, and dollars in 2026.

lets come back to this note next year.

stay humble and stack sats 🫡

LN has dozens of times more traffic than Monero and is booming in November.

Check out Kilian de Boltz's latest interview and ask yourself if Monero has that kind of activity.

We have seen de-anonymization attacks on Monero and all coinjoin implementations, but we have not yet seen this on Lighting other than in some theoretical studies.

Does this mean anything to you?

Still looking forward to the next 100K #bitcoin party in 2025?

⚡️📊 NEW - Income it takes to buy homes in various areas, per BankRate.

All we want for Christmas is to break out of this channel for good.

Culture is downstream of elite behavior. And elite behavior is downstream of incentives. And incentives are downstream of money.

It always comes back to the money.

said standard will never be supported on hardware/software made by me unless there is unanimous consensus to do so.

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Would it also be considered supercycle if third one turns red?

I have a #BIP idea, hear me out.

Spammers pay the node runners for hosting.

Wanna upload monkey pictures? Every node runner gets one sat per whatever amount of data people agree on.

Is this idea stupid? Does anyone wanna share that "i just learnt about Bitcoin and I'm here to fix it" meme?

#asknostr

It's just a random idea, tear it to bits, explain why it wouldn't work.

#core30 #knots #Bitcoin

Instead of making node runners pay to be volunteer data hosters,

My proposal is pay them for it.

The people doing the most important job are volunteering.

Node runners invest their own time and money into hardware and maintaining an internet connection.

And I know this is a hard fork or whatever, but Bitcoin has been through that, the node runners can decide which chain to continue maintaining.

Maybe a hard fork is what Bitcoin actually needs? What if there's a longer term forking cycle nobody has noticed before because we're only repeating the cycle now for the second time?

Science is a method for understanding the natural world.

What do you mean by "large parts of science"?

Corporations paying researchers to give them the answers they want is not part of science, it's corruption.

Your gripe is with the FDA, Monsanto, Pfizer, etc. not science

Ok so stop eating meat then too.

lmao bears

I can see again. Right now reading my pixel 9a at default text size, at about 2'.

The cause is likely gingko and tryptophan and tyrosine. Plus maca and cacao. But the latter did not do it alone before.

I think the tyrosine is reducing my sleep requirements. Meaning fatigue is now the biggest part weakening focus and convergence.

This is pretty wild.

So use versioning of some kind?